when you create a role, you can specify, nocreate option. Then when you
grant the tables to this user give only select privilege.
Regards
skarthi
From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <bseklecki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Morten W. Petersen" <morten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Read-only access to a database
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:46:53 -0400
Wouldn't you just set read-only ACLs for that role on all of the objects
in the database in question?
~BAS
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:42 +0100, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to create a user that has read-only access to
> a database.
>
> I've read the docs and fumbled around a bit (even
> tried to use phppgadmin) - but nothing works.
>
> "CREATE USER username" is about as far as I've
> gotten. Which other commands would I have to
> use to enable read-only access to a database?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Morten
>
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